End support for boxes.



L. WITTELS.

END SUPPORT FOR BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JUL! 10, 1911.

WITNESSES INVENTQR,

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LEON WITTELS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

END SUPPORT FOR BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed January 20, 1911, Serial No. 603,688. Divided and this application filed July 10,

1911. Serial No. 637,653. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON WITTELS, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End Supports for Boxes, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to end supports for boxes and particularly for blue printpaper-holder boxes of the class shown and described in a prior application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed by me Jan. 20, 1911, Serial No. 603,688, and of which this application is a division.

The invention described and claimed herein is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which:-

Figure 1 is an end view of a box of the class specified, provided with my improved end supports and showing the box connected with a vertical holder or support; Fig. 2 a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the box connected with a horizontal holder or support; Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 a section on the line H of Fig. 1.

In the drawing forming part of this specification I have shown at a a box which is rectangular in cross section and open at the top and suspended from or connected with a vertical support 6, and in Fig. 2 this box is mounted on or connected with a horizontal support 79 The box a; may be of any desired length and may be employed for any purpose, but is primarily intended as a blue print paper holder box as shown and described in the application for Letters Patent of the United States hereinbefore referred to.

In the practice of my invention I secure to the opposite ends of the box a, triangular keepers c composed of elastic sheet metal, and said keepers as will be seen cover one corner portion of the ends of the box and the central part thereof, and the outer edges thereof are arc-shaped in form as shown at c and said outer edges thereof are provided with triangular countersunk portions 0 and the other edges thereof which range at right angles to each other are provided with flanges c which are L-shaped in cross section and by which said keepers are secured to the ends of the box.

The countersunk portions 0 and the L- shaped flanges 0 form two supplemental keepers c which range at right angles to each other, and pivoted at d are L-shaped' arms 6 which may be swung into the position shown in Fig. 1 or into the position shown in Fig. 2 and may be secured by a screw f either to a vertical support as shown in Fig. 1 or to a horizontal support as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be understood that considerable pressure must be employed to swing the arms 6 from one of said positions into the other as said arms must be moved beneath the triangular countersunk portions 0 of the keepers 0, but this operation may be performed and the box may thus be secured to a vertical support or to a horizontal support whenever desired.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A box of the class described, the end portions of which are provided with keepers in which are pivoted L-shaped arms which are adapted to be turned into and held in two different positions at right angles to each other, and whereby said box may be secured to a vertical or a horizontal support.

2. The herein described means for connecting a box with a vertical or a horizontal support, which consists of elastic keepers adapted to be secured to the ends of the box and covering the central part and one corner thereof, the outer edge portions of said keepers being arc-shaped in form and being Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

provided With a triangular countersunk poras my invention I have signed my name in tion, and L-shaped arms pivoted in the apex presence of the subscribing Witnesses this portion of said keepers and adapted to be 8th day of July 1911.

swung into and held in tWo difierent posi- LEON WITTELS.

tions at right angles to each other when said Witnesses:

keepers are secured to the ends of said box. C. E. MULREANY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing FRANK G. AT LEE.

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